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Flip
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PostPosted: 01:33 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Daft wheel question Reply with quote
Motorbike wheels. Ferrous or non - ferrous. Need to know to buy a polishing kit. Rolling Eyes Laughing

(I think they're ferrous) Confused

(What are they made of?)
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ZRX61
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PostPosted: 03:22 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
If they were ferrous they'd be be made of steel or cast iron..
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Flip
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PostPosted: 03:47 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing

Is that a roundabout way of saying they're nonferrous? Pretend your talking to someone who knows nothing about metals...

The ferrous kit says ideal for motorcycles... but so does the other one... Confused

I just want to polish my rim Shocked (s).

All I know is wheels are alloy... light ... nonferrous Idea
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PostPosted: 08:15 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I just want to polish my rim (s).


It will end in tears! Soul destroying job, you spend two hours knackering your hands polishing each one, then come back a week later and they are worse than before you started.

Just don't say I didn't warn you.

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All I know is wheels are alloy... light ... nonferrous


Give that man a biscuit! As a general rule, if a magnet sticks to it, it is ferrous (containing iron) if not it is non-ferrous. An exception to this are some types of stainless, but you wouldn't really have to be polishing stainless, more just cleaning it.
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PostPosted: 08:43 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
Give that man a biscuit! As a general rule, if a magnet sticks to it, it is ferrous (containing iron) if not it is non-ferrous. An exception to this are some types of stainless, but you wouldn't really have to be polishing stainless, more just cleaning it.




Gah you beat me to it!!
Flip - don't do it. A friend at work used our polishing kits to make his rims shiny. Throughout the summer we had the bike in the lab touching up the rims, it was a chore. He then decided to start polishing his frame (which incidentally, never got finished, even with out industrial polishing wheels it was too much work Laughing )
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Flip
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PostPosted: 18:38 - 19 Apr 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks like I'll have to spend more money getting them powder coated instead. Rolling Eyes I'll leave it for now 'cause I'm pretty skint at the mo'.

Thanks for the help guys. Karma
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